Rhys was pulled from his restless sleep by something whimpering in his ear. He swatted at it, making contact with something furry. Opening one green-gray eyes he met the dark brown gaze of Jester. "What do you want?" he muttered. Jester stared at him a moment longer before he sighed and let the information that pushed on the edge of his mind trickle in. "Food." was the main word and her rolled his eyes. "Shit, can't you scavenge or something?" More silent staring. He finally picked himself up and stretched with a yawn, cracking his back and neck in the process. He looked around, and noticed Kane missing, but he wasn't worried. He knew that Kane was more than capable of taking care of himself. He glanced at the sky through the tree tops and saw who he assumed was Via, flying in wide circles around the camp. He grabbed his knife and stood quickly before touching the ground and letting the information fly through him. Kane could hunt with smell, he hunted by letting the earth tell him where everything was. Kane was nearby, then he felt a quail, about three yards away, smiling he closed his mind.
It took him only minutes to find the bird and kill it. He dunked it in the stream to loosen the feathers and then quickly skinned and cooked it. He put some aside for Kane and Via, even though he suspected that the eagle had already found something. He tossed pieces and Jester and then pulled out his pipe, stuffing it with tabacco and lighting it.
It was risky, he knew that, but he couldn't help it. He'd always had borderline worrying oral fixation issues. It was like he never stopped teething and ever since he had developed teeth, he'd always had something to chew on. It made him a perfect candidate for an impossible to quit smoking habit. He tried to smoke things that didn't have too much smell, some of those things were a little bit... well they had interesting side effects. He just decided it was better to be a little loopy sometimes than rip apart his fingernails and cuticles till they bled. He had finished the pipe by the time Kane returned to camp. "Hey kid, find anything interesting?"